virtual drive on cd or dvd?

[Glorfindel]

Is there a way to make a DVD/RW into a 'drive' from which folders and files can be dragged, dropped, erased, etc. individually?

[snow]

Hi Glorfidel, welcome to FPCH

 

I know that several major buring programs (Sonic, Roxio, Nero) all support this feature, but I've also heard that it can be very unreliable, and prone to data corruption and loss.

 

If you need a kind of large 'floppy disk' then a much better solution would be a USB memory stick. These are fairly cheap now, a 4Gb stick (roughly the same size as a dvd) is only about £6.

[Goku]

Hello Glorifindel. As Snow said, that will only work when you have certain programs installed which support the feature and then too, it can only be used a limited number of times.

 

What I mean to say is that unlike a drive, a DVD will allow files to be written but not deleted like a normal drive would do. If you want that much space and those features, you would be much better off investing in a flash drive like Snow suggested. They are small, ubiquitous and much more efficient and safer than DVD drives.

 

Hope that helps. :)

 

-- Goku

[Dalo Harkin]

People consider 'virtual drives' to be different things

 

If you are referring to daemon tools which is a virtual drive tool then I would save yourself the headache, it basically allows you to mount an image onto a virtual drive.

 

What the others are referring to is a list function like you have in WMP at the side where you can add/remove and burn files, And is not a 'virtual drive'

[Glorfindel]

Thanks

 

Thanks for the advice. I'll stick to usb drives!

[Goku]

Glad we could help Glor. Please ask any more questions or doubts you may have. :)

 

-- Goku

[Plastic Nev]

Hi, I don't know about DVD disks I have never tried this with a DVD, only a CD. I put some files, not video and not music, just ordinary files as in word documents and such onto a CD on one machine, then inserted the disk in another. Close any window that opens, then click > start, > my computer. The CD drive was then showing a disk in it, I then double clicked it to open the disk, this listed the files on it. I then chose to click each file, then copy, and sent them to a folder. In my case there was no loss of data doing it that way, but they were only simple files and nothing complicated. Worth a try with other files if you have backup.

Nev.